It's something that happens quite often: Sellers and buyers speaking different languages, yet using the same words. They use the same words and yet the understandings are different. Until you find that common language, you won't be able to see the same thing. The same return. The same outcome. |
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Helping. Helping the right ones who can use your help. Helping the right ones who can pay for your help. Helping. Now, not being aggressive doesn't mean not to be firm. You can help and say No. You can help and choose. You can help and charge "a lot". And helping is about guiding them in the right direction. Especially if it's not you.
Everyone tells you to be aggressive. That you need to crush your competition. That you need to win. You don't.
It makes it easier in our heads to take things off to reduce the price and get to a point that's acceptable to us, than to keep adding things as we see the price going up. Check this story by Blair Enns: Anchor High.